Thela Hun Ginjeet

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"Thela Hun Ginjeet" is a single by the band King Crimson, released in 1981 and on the album Discipline (1981). The song name is an anagram of "heat in the jungle", itself a euphemism for city-based crime. (The term "heat" is American slang for firearms or for police.) While "Thela Hun Ginjeet" is in 44 time, Robert Fripp's electric guitar plays in 78 time during much of the song, creating a polymetric effect. The middle section of the song features a recording of Adrian Belew's voice, which was covertly recorded at Fripp's direction. An agitated Belew related a story about how he was wandering around the Notting Hill Gate neighborhood of London where Discipline was recorded at Island Studios, while carrying a portable tape recorder and hoping to find inspiration for lyrics. Instead, he was confronted by a street gang who found his actions suspicious, and subsequently questioned by the police who thought he was possibly a drug dealer.

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